Automatic

[Intro]
C F Am F 2x


[Verse]
C
Quarter in a payphone

Drying laundry on the line
         A#
Watching sun tea in the window
       F
Pocket watch for telling time


[Verse]
C
Seems like only yesterday

I'd get a blank cassette
   A#
Record the Country Countdown
       F              \    C  F
'Cos I couldn't buy it yet


[Verse]
            C
If we drove all the way to Dallas

Just to buy an Easter dress
            A#
We'd take along a Rand McNally
         F
Stand in line to pay for gas


[Verse]
    C
God knows that shifting gears

Ain't what it used to be
             A#
I learned to drive that '55
            F
Just like a Queen three on a tree


[Chorus]
C                     F
Hey whatever happened to
             Am
Waiting your turn
         F
Doing it all by hand
          C          
  'Cos when everything
              F
is handed to you
          Am           
  It's only worth as much
        F
as the time you put in
   A#                 
  It all just seems so
                 F
good the way we had it
A#                      
  Back before everything
   F         C     F  Am  F
became, automatic


[Verse]
   C
If you had something to say

You'd write in on a piece of paper
          A#
And you'd put a stamp on it
           F
And they'd get it three days later


[Verse]
C
Boys would call the girls

And girls would turn them down
        A#
Staying married was the only way
   F
To work your problems out


[Chorus]
C                     F
Hey whatever happened to
             Am
Waiting your turn
         F
Doing it all by hand
          C          
  'Cos when everything
              F
is handed to you
          Am           
  It's only worth as much
        F
as the time you put in
   A#                 
  It all just seems so
                 F
good the way we had it
A#                        F
Back before everything became,
     C  F       Am  F
automatic, yeah
    C   F  Am  F
Automatic


[Verse]
       C
Lets's roll the windows down

Windows with the cranks
     A#
Come on let's take a picture
          F~
The kind you gotta shake


[Chorus]
C                     F
Hey whatever happened to
             Am
Waiting your turn
         F
Doing it all by hand
          C          
  'Cos when everything
              F
is handed to you
          Am           
  It's only worth as much
        F
as the time you put in
   A#                 
  It all just seems so
                 F
good the way we had it
A#                        F \
Back before everything became,
     C    F     Am  F
automatic, yeah
    C   F  Am  F     C~
Automatic